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On 2012/01/23 00:35, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Olli Hauer<ohauer@freebsd.org>  wrote:
>> Hm, if I read the diffs Eitan has changed from `=' to `:=' so I think you mean
>>   Why should we stop using `='?
>
> A few people on portmgr expressed their preferences that we stop using
> both = and := and instead duplicate contents of the variables. Instead
> of continuing to guess their reasoning I'll let someone with a hat
> reply :)

I was expressing my personal preference.

No one with the hat is going to force everyone to use one of several 
equivalently technically correct solutions. Both := and explicit listing 
are equally fine.

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